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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Indian man impersonated his brother in law to serve his life sentence for murder
Kiran Singh, a small farmer from Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, had served 18 months of his brother-in-law Raj Kumar's jail term when a cellmate betrayed them to the prison authorities.
Singh confessed that Kumar, his wife's brother, had persuaded him to take his place because he needed to look after his five unmarried sisters. He had promised he would appeal to country's Supreme Court and he would be released within weeks.
Raj Kumar, an electrical contractor, was convicted with his friend Faisal for the 1993 murder of a labourer in a gunfight with a rival firm. They were released on bail pending an appeal but were ordered to surrender last year after the appeal was finally dismissed. But instead of handing himself in, Kumar persuaded Kiran Singh to go in his place and to have Kumar's name tattooed on his arm to convince the police.
Jail officials remain baffled over why Singh agreed to serve a sentence for a crime he did not commit. In India a life sentence can mean a convict's 'whole life'. They were not able to establish whether Kumar had paid Singh to serve his sentence or offered to support his family.
Singh's family had been unaware of the deal and had thought he had simply disappeared after leaving to look for work.
Their arrangement was betrayed by Faisal, Kumar's accomplice in the murder, after he and Singh fell out. Faisal informed the prison authorities that the man sharing his cell was not Kumar.
"They were brought to the jail in March 2010 and were quite close to each other. However, their relationship ended round April this year and the co-accused Faisal complained to us that his jail mate is not Raj Kumar but Kiran Singh," Mr S M Singh, deputy jailer at Dehradun Jail told The Daily Telegraph.
"We moved an application before the court, which summoned the fake Raj Kumar. Before the court, he accepted that he impersonated his brother-in-law and identified himself as Kiran Singh," he said.
Raj Kumar has since been arrested, while Kiran Singh has now been charged with fraud. If convicted he could receive his very own life sentence.
Iowa couple married for 72 years died holding hands in the hospital, exactly one hour apart.
A devoted Iowa couple married for 72 years died holding hands in the hospital last week, exactly one hour apart.
The passing reflected the nature of their marriage, where, "As a rule, everything was done together," said the couple's daughter Donna Sheets, 71.
Gordon Yeager, 94, and his wife Norma, 90, left their small town of State Center, Iowa, on Wednesday to go into town, but never made it. A car accident sent the couple to the emergency room and intensive care unit with broken bones and other injuries. But, even in the hospital, their concerns were each other.
"She was saying her chest hurt and what's wrong with Dad? Even laying there like that, she was worried about Dad," said the couple's son, Dennis Yeager, 52. "And his back was hurting and he was asking about Mom."
When it became clear that their conditions were not improving, the couple was moved into a room together in beds side-by-side where they could hold hands.
"They joined hands; his right hand, her left hand," Sheets said.
Gordon Yeager died at 3:38 p.m. He was no longer breathing, but the family was surprised by what his monitor showed.
"Someone in there said, 'Why, then, when we look at the monitor is the heart still beating?'" Sheets recalled. "The nurse said Dad was picking up Mom's heartbeat through Mom's hand."
"And we thought, 'Oh my gosh, Mom's heart is beating through him,'" Dennis Yeager said.
Norma Yeager died exactly an hour later.
"Dad used to say that a woman is always worth waiting for," Dennis Yeager said. "Dad waited an hour for her and held the door for her."
The inseparable couple was engaged and married within 12 hours in 1939 on the day Norma Yeager graduated from high school.
"She graduated from high school on May 26, 1939, at about 10 a.m., and at about 10 p.m. that night she was married to my dad at his sister's house," Sheets said.
The vibrant duo had a "very, very full life."
They worked as a team. They traveled together, they were in a bridge club together and they worked in a Chevrolet dealership, creamery and other businesses together.
"They always did everything together," Sheets said. "They weren't apart. They just weren't."
Dennis Yeager described his father as an "outgoing" and "hyper" man who was still working on the roof of his house and sitting cross-legged with no problem at age 90.
"The party didn't start until he showed up," he said. "He was the outgoing one and she supported him by being the giver. She supported Dad in everything. And he would've been lost without her."
Dennis Yeager said it is strange today to go into his parents' home and see the "two chairs side-by-side that they sat in all the time," empty. He said it was in those chairs that his parents cheered on the Arizona sports teams they loved and rarely missed an episode of "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Price Is Right."
According to their obituary, besides their children, the Yeagers are survived by her sister, Virginia Kell, and his brother, Roger Yeager, as well as 14 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
Their grandson Randy Yeager said he has been inspired in his own 13-year marriage by his grandparents' loving and lasting marriage.
"Grandpa and I were talking this summer about all of the people getting divorced for this reason or that and he mentioned that nobody stays together anymore," Randy Yeager wrote to ABCNews.com in an email. "I told [him] that my wife Mara and I would never be getting a divorce and he said, 'That's because you're old school, like me!'
"That was one of the greatest compliments I could have ever received and one I will strive to live up to for the rest of my life," Randy Yeager said.
The couple were put in a casket together holding hands for their funeral this week, but are being cremated and will have their ashes mixed before burial.
"All their life has been together," Sheets said. "So, when it came to the funeral home, the family asked, 'Can we have them put in the casket together holding hands?' Because that's the way their life was."
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
JOKE: Cal Coolidge
President Coolidge and his wife were touring a farm. While the President was elsewhere, the farmer proudly showed Mrs. Coolidge a rooster that "could copulate with hens all day long, day after day." Mrs. Coolidge coyly suggested that the farmer tell that to Mr. Coolidge, which he did.
The President thought for a moment and then inquired, "With the same hen?"
"No, sir," replied the farmer.
"Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge," retorted the President.
Lesbian couple want to help boy become girl
A lesbian couple in California who say their 11-year-old son Tommy wants to be a girl named Tammy are giving their child hormone blockers that delay the onset of puberty, so that he can have more time to decide if he wants to change his gender. The couple's supporters say the Hormone Blocking Therapy has only minor side effects and is appropriate for a child who is unsure of his gender.
"This is definitely a changing landscape for transgender youth," said Joel Baum, director of education and training for Gender Spectrum, a California-based non-profit group. "This is about giving kids and their families the opportunity to make the right decision." But critics of the treatment say 11-year-olds are not old enough to make life-altering decisions about changing their gender, and parents should not be encouraging them.
"This is child abuse. It's like performing liposuction on an anorexic child," said Dr Paul McHugh, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. "It is a disorder of the mind. Not a disorder of the body. Dealing with it in this way is not dealing with the problem that truly exists. We shouldn't be mucking around with nature. We can't assume what the outcome will be," Professor McHugh said.
Tommy's parents, Pauline Moreno and Debra Lobel, said they support their child and feel this is the best way for him to find an answer to a question he has been asking all his life. They say Tommy - whom they now call Tammy - began taking GnRH inhibitors over the summer to give him more time to explore the female gender identity with which he associates
VIDEO: Bear cub wanders into grocery store's produce aisle
A bear cub wandered into a grocery store in Ketchikan, Alaska, on Saturday, and climbed up on the fruits and vegetables in the produce case.
Police were called as the cub wandered back and forth in the case at Tatsuda's IGA; officers responded, and assisted as a customer got a hold of the cub and carried it outside.
Store employees reported that the cub entered the store through automatic doors.
The cub was undersized for this time of year. No mother bear was seen in the area, and it had not been seen since being released two days before. The store threw away all the vegetables in the produce case after the incident.
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